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Highlights of a farbrengen celebrating Chai Elul, the birthday of the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe, with original narration by photographer Levi Yitzchak Freidin.
What mattered to me was my broken arm. And at that moment, that was all that mattered to the Rebbe as well.
The Rebbe tells children how each child sets the tone in his or her own room, which is his or her own little “city.”
The windows in the Temple were designed to be narrow on the inside and wide on the outside, representing the fact that its purpose is to shine outward and share the light with the rest of the world....
Mesirut nefesh -- Hebrew term for self sacrifice -- means both "giving of life" and "giving of will." Self sacrifice is not just the willingness to die for one's beliefs; it is the way in which one lives for them. It is the willingness to sacrifice one's "self" -- one's desires, one's preconceptions, one's most basic inclinations.
— The Lubavitcher Rebbe